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-10 years ago, Shaun Smith was fighting a war against
a rival drug gang.
To win, he introduced urban terrorism to the British
underworld.
Victims were firebombed with homemade ***, attacked with
grenades, and sprayed up with machine guns.
In retaliation, his enemies tried to blow Shaun up with a
car bomb, the biggest explosion on mainland Britain
between the fall of the IRA in '77.
Shaun Smith was known as an enforcer.
Today, after five years in prison, he is trying to modify
those skills by working as a debt collector in the straight
[INAUDIBLE] economy.
-I only do it with a *** smile.
-Often Shaun's debts fall into the gray area between the
legitimate economy and the underworld, a lucrative market
potentially worth 150 billion in Britian.
This is a typical debt for Shaun, a dispute between a
businessman and a gangster over 300,000 pounds.
To recover the debt, Shaun has brought backup and a dog unit.
But just in case things gets out of control, off camera
there is a notorious gangster with a history of firearms and
extreme violence.
-*** abuse is an unspeakable taboo in the
underworld.
However, male *** is commonly used as a weapon by gangsters
to enforce a debt.
This is a less well known form of underworld violence, which
acts as a powerful propaganda tool, over and above the
physical and mental suffering it causes.
-The lads know they've got off lightly with a telling off,
because a slap is nothing compared to the extremist
tendencies Shaun was capable of in the past.
-Shaun Smith was an extremist who specialized in spreading
terror for no rational gain.
But the hidden costs of this guerrilla war
haunts him to this day.
-Since filming this, Shaun hit the jackpot, landing the
biggest deal of his career, a one million
pound debt in Portugal.
Payoff was a much needed all-expenses
holiday in the sun.
After all, going straight hadn't turned out to be the
quiet life he'd once dreamt of.
Nat is still working with his brother.
He's clean, and no longer self-harming.
He's also busy training for his pro boxing comeback, his
last shot at the title.
Tony is still on the run.
His family fears if he comes back, he may go on the missing
list forever.
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